4. The Perfectionist
Many people feel that if something isn’t 100% perfect, they need to keep doing it until it is. The sad part is that for some, making something perfect can never happen because they are always trying to redo it to make it better.
There have been many instances where children, for example, would submit a project at school and they get it back with less than full marks. This isn’t good enough and this is when the obsession kicks in. They could do three things in this situation; one could be that they will feel ashamed and attempt to redo it. Secondly, they could get home and start to hurt themselves because they let themselves down.
Lastly, they could turn on the teacher for marking them less than the full amount. In their minds, what they have given is nothing less than perfect and for someone to mark them as less than that, is an insult. In severe cases, people have become violent over this.